If necessary, you can review the the IPlan Assignment sheet here. Complete the process shown in the diagram below by following the steps and answering the questions for each step.
a. Review your journal entries RJ1 and RJ3 for your original assessment of your needs and strengths as well as the needs of your students.
b. Complete the Teaching Self Assessment based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give. Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement.
a. Review your school improvement document(s). (If you forgot them, download a SALT visit.)
b. Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
Need for better reading and writing skills
Students will become better readers and writers.
Students will develop good reading and writing skills and will gain an appreciation for it.
RIBTS 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 3.2
2.
Need for more problem solving opportunities (critical thinking skills).
Students will be able to discuss problems, develop, and test a variety of solutions.
Students can present and evaluate their conclusions from learning and celebrate their work.
Students can become independent, critical thinkers and life-long learners.
Students will be able to engage in challenging learning experiences and develop confidence as learners.
RIBTS 5.1, 5.4, 5.5
3.
Need to engage and challenge all students.
Students can develop and apply knowledge and skills.
Students can connect what they learn in school to their own lives.
Students can have a voice in the classroom.
Students are interested and engaged. They understand the value of education.
RIBTS 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.4
4.
Need for more resources and technology.
If more textbooks and classroom resources (i.e. computers) are available for students, then they will be better suited for learning.
Adequate resources and technology speed up the pace of progress for students.
Higher level of available technology would make it possible for C.H.S to implement electronic portfolios and meet the proficiency-based graduation requirements.
RIBT 2.4
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My professional development goal at the moment is to learn how to better engage and challenge all the students in my classes.
This goal will help me personally by increasing students' interest in my teaching as well as in the material being learned. I can benefit my students and my school greatly by choosing authentic tasks that would involve elements of student choice, problem-solving, inquiry, and complexity. I intend to teach in a way that would require students to organize and structure problems, to use creativity and flexibility of thinking, and to accept multiple solutions to problems.
This goal is linked to RIBTS 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.4
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
First, throughout my teaching, I need to continually tell myself that teaching matters and that ALL students CAN learn. In order to better engage and challenge all the students, I intend to engage in the following two ways by the end of my first year of of teaching:
1. Look for teaching in ways that the material being learned relates to students' lives. To do this, I would encourage different forms of expression and respect students' views on topics. I would also need to be passionate about my work and convey that passion to my students as well. In addition, I'd look for ways in which I could allow the students to become "experts" on a topic and have them DO something (i.e. interview someone, participate in an event etc).
2. Look for the main idea in the topic being learned. Before beginning to teach a new topic, I would ask myself "what is the main idea I want the students to get out of this topic?" and "what additional concepts must be addressed in this topic?". I would need to do that because it would allow me to formulate the ideas, themes, and issues that would provide the depth and variety of perspective that would help the students to develop a significant understanding. I would also ask myself "what area in this topic is most likely to engage my students?" and then I would need to focus in ways to get them engaged and provoke them to want to learn about it.
EDC 484 IPlan Synthesis
If necessary, you can review the the IPlan Assignment sheet here. Complete the process shown in the diagram below by following the steps and answering the questions for each step.
a. Review your journal entries RJ1 and RJ3 for your original assessment of your needs and strengths as well as the needs of your students.
b. Complete the Teaching Self Assessment based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give. Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement.
a. Review your school improvement document(s). (If you forgot them, download a SALT visit.)
b. Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My professional development goal at the moment is to learn how to better engage and challenge all the students in my classes.
This goal will help me personally by increasing students' interest in my teaching as well as in the material being learned. I can benefit my students and my school greatly by choosing authentic tasks that would involve elements of student choice, problem-solving, inquiry, and complexity. I intend to teach in a way that would require students to organize and structure problems, to use creativity and flexibility of thinking, and to accept multiple solutions to problems.
This goal is linked to RIBTS 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.4
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
First, throughout my teaching, I need to continually tell myself that teaching matters and that ALL students CAN learn. In order to better engage and challenge all the students, I intend to engage in the following two ways by the end of my first year of of teaching:
1. Look for teaching in ways that the material being learned relates to students' lives. To do this, I would encourage different forms of expression and respect students' views on topics. I would also need to be passionate about my work and convey that passion to my students as well. In addition, I'd look for ways in which I could allow the students to become "experts" on a topic and have them DO something (i.e. interview someone, participate in an event etc).
2. Look for the main idea in the topic being learned. Before beginning to teach a new topic, I would ask myself "what is the main idea I want the students to get out of this topic?" and "what additional concepts must be addressed in this topic?". I would need to do that because it would allow me to formulate the ideas, themes, and issues that would provide the depth and variety of perspective that would help the students to develop a significant understanding. I would also ask myself "what area in this topic is most likely to engage my students?" and then I would need to focus in ways to get them engaged and provoke them to want to learn about it.
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